Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 18 · Capstone: one application, delivered
Deciding before building
Lesson 172 of 176 · 2 min
Whether IT SHOULD EXIST AT ALL, then STATE, CONNECTIONS AND SECURITY. Written down BEFORE THE FIRST PAGE IS CREATED. Four decisions, in this order, and every one of them is expensive to reverse after a page exists. WHETHER IT SHOULD EXIST IS FIRST BECAUSE IT IS MODULE 1'S QUESTION AND THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SAVE ALL THE OTHER WORK. Could personalisation do this? Could Page Composer? Should it be an extension rather than a standalone application — Module 14 Lesson 1? For this brief the answer is a standalone application, and the reasons are worth writing: it has its own data, its own workflow, and its users are on phones. STATE IS SECOND AND IT IS THE ONE PEOPLE SKIP. What does the user carry between pages — the selected record, a filter — and at what scope? Module 4 Lessons 3 and 9: narrow by default, widened only…
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In this module: Module 18 · Capstone: one application, delivered
- 1The brief
- 2Deciding before building
- 3Building it
- 4Proving it
- 5Publishing and handing over
- 6Where to go next